PRIME MINISTER SOYER IN ANKARA

Prime Minister Soyer yesterday (29 May) met with the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara.

Soyer is expected to sign a protocol with the Turkish State Minister Abdullatif Sener, today (30 May). TRNC Finance Minister Ahmet Uzun stressed that the protocol involved the use of 135 million dollars, which was allocated for the TRNC and included in the 2006 budget.

Speaking to Turkish News Agency (TAK), Prime Minister Soyer said: "Our aim is to use the credits received from Turkey for the infrastructure, instead of the budget. We envisage meeting the needs for the budget with our own means and sources."

Pointing out that during the visit which took place upon the request of the TRNC, the economic situation would be evaluated and a protocol would be signed which would put into operation the credit allocated for the TRNC for this year, Soyer said: "There was a need for an evaluation within the framework of the economic developments. In this context, this visit is important".

Meanwhile, prior to his meeting with Erdogan, Prime Minister Soyer met with Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul.

 

"EOKA PALACE" ON MARTYRES’ CEMETARY

In South Cyprus, "EOKA Struggle Palace" is currently being built on the cemetery of 89 Turkish Cypriots who were massacred in 1974.

In 1974, 89 Turkish Cypriots living in Taskent (Dohni) were taken from their village and brought to Palodia Village, which is on the way to Limassol by bus, and after being taken off the bus in a forest region, were executed by shooting. After 32 years, on the field where the said Turkish Cypriots were buried, the Greek Cypriots are building an "EOKA Struggle Palace" for the EOKA organization, which had turned the island into a pool of blood by massacring the Turkish Cypriots with the aim of achieving Enosis (island’s unification with Greece). The building is supposed to be like a museum, which would give every kind of service to EOKA supporters.